Where we walked:
This is the School of Engineering - the beginning of my training and career. Electrical Engineering starting in 1959
This is the Levine Science Research Center - housing the Computer Science Department (at the end next to the road). This was the end of my first term at Duke (1997).
First a distraction (of spider proportion). Behind the LSRC is the Free Electron Laser - buried. There are stairs leading up to a parking lot and on each side are some bushes. There are funnel webs on these bushes. These spiders are quite shy and timid and the slightlest movement sends them racing into their funnel - to their hiding place. Here is the web and you can see a blurred image of a funnel web spider and two legs in her hiding place -
and with a bit of patience, the owners show their faces. Here is one of the funnel spiders - only seen by those with curious eyes.
Here, look closely and you can see her eyes
And here she is hiding
A funnel spider with dinner
Eyes of a funnel spider
This is Xiaobai - my close friend and colleague of 20 years. She is a super star in numerical methods and helped me through many exercises to better understand the stability and accuracy of procedures I was using (studies of propagation in excitable media). She thought a long afternoon walk through the Duke Gardens would be a pleasant distraction from work. Here she is and what we saw.
At the Duke Garden - was this big bird
Another view
ANother view
Flying - nice reflections
A white flower
One of the several ponds in the Duke Gardens
A spider azalea
Banana plants in Durham? Impossible, but here is the data
The flower and miccro-bananas
Another view
A red rose that plays tricks with the image sensor of my camera
A pink rose
Another pink rose
White rose
Two bees harvesting pollen
Santa Cruz Pan Plants (Victoria cruziana)
A cluster of platter plants
A single platter plant
A juvenile Victoria lily (Victoria cruziana
With the flower
Purple lotus
Yellow lotus
Entrance to the CHinese Garden
A white flower
A Japanese walk way
A white flower
Walking back through the campus
An arch with visitors
Walking by IGSP (Institute for Genome Science and Policy)
C. Frank Starmer